While You are Coding

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coding is not mechanical

Listen to your lizard brain

• common situations in which you instincts kick in

  • FEAR OF THE BLANK PAGE
    • two problems:
      • experience is trying to speak to you. Give it time and your doubts to crystallize into something morel solid. Let your instincts contribute to your performance
      • you are afraid that you’ll make a mistake
  • FIGHTING YOURSELF
    • some days coding is easy, others is hard
    • your code is saying that it is harder than it should be

• to overcome the fear of the blank page

  • write “i’m prototyping” on a sticky note and stick it on the side of your screen
  • remind yourself that prototypes are meant to fail
  • in your empty editor buffer, create a comment describing in one sentence what you want to learn or do
  • start coding

Programming by coincidence